Presented by TS Blakeney together with two volume s of Indentures for the delivery from the Exchequer, where they had been sized and sealed, of new standard weights and measures used by clerks of the markets in various towns 1670 - 1800
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1687
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: The National Archives
Town/City: London
Item date: 1683
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 5 5s
Institution: National Library of Ireland
Town/City: Dublin City
County: Dublin
Item date: 13th century
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 5 5s
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion
With fine seal, preserved on velvet in a morocco case
Item date: 1705
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
Manuscript on parchment pp 76. Pages tabulated to show the numbers of guns and quantities of stores carried by ships of 12 different sizes. Presented by John Ehrman
Item date: 1626
Date acquired: 1959
Grant Value: 30
Institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London
With an important additional leaf of MS. Purchased with the aid of a contribution of 30 by John Ehrman
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
13 of the volumes were not previously in BL. Presented by Miss AR Wilson of Ongar
Item date: 1758
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: 40
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Bound by Richard Montague for Thomas Hollis in gold-tooled green morocco with doublures of mottled calf. No other example of these bindings, which Hollis had put on books he presented to foreign libraries, is known in Britain. 40 was given by Arthur Gimson towards the purchase of the book
Item date: 1619
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by Arthur Gimson
Item date: 1556
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Text complete, lacking folding plate and two leaves at end. Presented by John R Hetherington
Item date: 1516/17
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: 200
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Only copyof this edition known and the earliest version then recorded. Printed by P Olivier at Rouen in Gothic Letter with numerous woodcut decorations in the text and musical notation with a red 4-line stave